Access to mobile phone location data can help understand spread of vector-borne diseases

Researchers from EPFL and MIT have shown that human mobility is a major factor in the spread of vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue even over short intra-city distances. In a paper published in Scientific Reports, the team compares different mobility models and concludes that having access to mobile phone location data can prove crucial in understanding disease transmission dynamics – and, ultimately, in stopping an outbreak from evolving into an epidemic.

From http://besthealthnews.com/2019/11/access-to-mobile-phone-location-data-can-help-understand-spread-of-vector-borne-diseases/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=access-to-mobile-phone-location-data-can-help-understand-spread-of-vector-borne-diseases